· Private foundation
Bootheel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLCOX UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,300 |
| LORDSBURG MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS | $12,319 |
| BISBEE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $8,902 |
| SAN SIMON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,158 |
| SILVER CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS | $5,050 |
| ANIMAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $4,194 |
| TOMBSTONE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,443 |
| COBRE CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL | $2,830 |
| BOWIE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,422 |
| COCHISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $2,210 |
| ELFRIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,395 |
| PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,267 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWreaths Across America4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +63%
- HMHIDALGO MEDICAL SERVICES5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +7%
- WTWillcox Theater and Arts Inc2× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- DUDOUGLAS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $6k
- WNWESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Supports initiatives that promote healthy living in Cochise County.
Through the operation of museums and support of historic preservation we will attempt to interpret and conserve our historical and cultural heritage. Through the presentation and support of cultural and educational programs we will attempt…
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
To provide affordable housing to low income persons and to collect and sell second hand merchandise in its thriftstore
To provide education, awareness and prevention information throughout the communities of Lea County and services such as forensic exams and advocacy, for victims/survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, strangulation, child injury,…
Rescue, care and placement of unwanted, abused and homeless animals. Help with elimination of pet overpopulation in Mohave County AZ
Animal shelter and adoption center
365 days of residential care, housing food etc, for recovering clients
Operates a domestic violence shelter and a rape crisis counseling and assistance team
The mission of bisbee hospital association inc d/b/a copper queen community hospital ("cqch") is to maintain and support access to primary healthcare throughout southern cochise county by providing leadership and vision to address…
To provide services to the elderly and disabled in the form of congregate and home delivered meals, housekeeping services, in-home nursing care, home health aides, and other services.
Our focus is to work with groups and individuals who are in the arts, humanities, education and historic preservation with goals designed to enhance Bisbees unique place in the history of the Southwest, the contribution made to Bisbees…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds HIDALGO MEDICAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Willcox Theater and Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF GRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COCHISE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COCHISE FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC dba LORIS PLACE ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EL REFUGIO ↗
- Who funds SILVER REGIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Bisbee Arizona ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Community Food Bank Inc · Arizona Food Bank Network · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bootheel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bootheel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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